Hi, I'm wondering if anyone can help/advise how to configure the Sonicwall TZ210 to allow Netbios traffic across the LAN.

The Sonicwall X6 interface has an IP address of 172.16.0.1/24, on the HP switch the vlan gateway 172.16.0.2/24 so the SW is just seen as another device in that vlan. A static route has been configured on the HP and SW switch for internet access, all vlans can access the internet with no issues.

The SW articles I have read have the SW doing the vlan routing via subinterfaces. If the network is configured this way IP helper works well but if I configure the HP switch to do the vlan routing then I cannot get the SW IP Helper to work.

Originally the SW was configured with subinterfaces, I followed this article and I was able to setup IP Helper and it worked with no issues but we found the network speeds were slow across the LAN when using the SW to route vlans.

We moved the vlan interfaces to a HP switch and saw a big increase in performance so this is where we are to date. The HP switch routes the vlans and a static route points to the vlan gateway for internet access.

You will need to configure the HP switch to route Netbios, not the SW, since HP is now your vlan to vlan router. The SW doesn't have a chance to see the Netbios information since the only traffic it's getting is going to the Internet...

Not a Procurve expert. You might have to call HP support for this. The only other thing I can think that would cause problems with the netbios is your netmasks being incorrect. Since netbios relies on broadcasting, it's critical that the clients and the switch have the right netmask configured...

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